The medicine man guides the girl’s sponsor, her paternal grandmother, as she ceremoniously removes all the turquoise jewelry Kieloh is wearing, washes it in a bowl and sets the jewelry aside ...

She was on her way to perform a Kinaalda, a coming-of-age Navajo tradition, where a young woman who first shows signs of growing up takes part in a five-day process of performing adult duties.

FARMINGTON — A new episode of the National Geographic Channel series "The Story of God with Morgan Freeman" that airs Sunday will feature a Farmington family and familiar sites around Shiprock ...

Sandia National Laboratories diversity workforce specialist Marie Capitan with her daughter during the Kinaalda ceremony, a celebration of womanhood in the Navajo tradition.

When a Navajo girl enters puberty, she participates in the life-affirming kinaalda ritual. The young girl's extended family celebrates for nearly a week.

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LUPTON – Hours before the sun will conquer the dark, a light rain falls, burning wood crackles and soft voices drift from a hogan. An 11-year-old Navajo girl, dressed in ...